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10, 2020, post by Dave Santos NPW Train Rare SS Train Plans mention handling challenges. Author recommends progressive brake input toward top. Is a pilot kite used? TREN de NASAS The NPW is a power kite without inherent self-flying stability. By adding brakes at top, all the lower kites are constrained to behave as one in fluky wind. That's a valuable nominal heuristic. On the other hand, less probable conditions might call for brakes low on the train, full brakes, or no brakes. A small pilot can be enough by design to stabilize a powerful power kite, just as a child may lead a bull by the nose. A few pilot kites could stabilize whole farms such that a digital electro-mechanical system might never serve better. The tiny pilot control logic is naturally amplified throughout the bulk; like neuronal signals cascading to control a mightly muscle. Indeed, neurons are weirdly kite shaped to begin with, and the atmosphere could in the long run become a planetary brain of kitematter. The idea once again is that bulk control force is best harvested by the embodied logic as needed, so-called "passive control". Active control is best reserved for exception handling, like emergency killing the whole farm if an aircraft wanders in. If no pilot then it likely had staked out lines to surface and/or aggregate stability. A single NPW does not make a stable SLK. The Tren may have flown briefly and gotten photographed before crashing. I would use a pilot. Plans come with a warning. |
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